For film reactors
Movie reaction video editor
Edit first-time-watching movie reactions in your browser. Line your facecam up with the film, pick a layout, and let the editor cut between watching and talking automatically. The film is just the content track: the editor works the same with anything you play.
your microphone
What people make with it
What makes film reactions hard to edit
A two-hour first watch
Long source footage is where upload-based editors slow down. Here the film is read straight from your disk, so a feature-length reaction costs your computer’s time and free disk space, and the editor shows how much before it starts.
A comment every few minutes, for two hours
A first watch has dozens of short comments spread across a long film. Each one is found from your microphone and gets its own cut. Trim pauses shrinks the long quiet stretches between them, and Keep it all leaves the whole watch-along as it was.
A frame that still looks like cinema
Video-first keeps the film full-screen with your camera in a corner shape. When you talk, the camera moves to the centre and the film softens behind you, then comes back when you stop.
Three moments, and you choose every look
The editor swaps between the first two from your microphone and puts the third at the start and the end. Each look is a ready-made one or one you build, and a second version makes the clips take turns over a long film.
You’re quiet
The look that runs for most of a first watch. Whatever you put here decides how much of the film is on screen while nobody is talking.
You speak
The look the editor cuts to the moment your microphone picks you up, and back out of when you stop. It can be a completely different arrangement from the one above.
Intro & outro
Just you, on the whole frame, at the start and the end. It is where the channel intro, the spoiler warning and the sign-off go.
Where we would start for film reactions
A first watch is about the film, so we would let it own the frame. Video-first keeps it full-screen with your camera in a corner shape, and brings you to the middle the moment you talk. Movies are claimed more than anything else, so cut to yourself often, and keep the other way round, just below, for the film that gets claimed anyway.
You’re quiet
The film has the whole frame
Your camera sits in a corner shape, small enough to stay out of the subtitle line and big enough that a viewer still reads your face. Size, corner and shape are yours to set, and the film is untouched behind it.
You speak
You come to the middle, the film goes soft
The moment your microphone picks you up, the camera grows and moves to the centre and the film blurs behind you. It is still playing, so the scene never disappears, it just stops competing with you.
A suggestion, not a lock. The same project can run the other way round: you full-screen, the film in a window you control. It shows far less of the original, which is what you want the day a first watch gets claimed.
And then you are in a real editor
A first watch runs long, and long videos live or die on how easy they are to follow. That is what the timeline is for.
text
Title cardChapter 2
pictures
meme.pngspoiler box
main
introquietyou speakquietyou speakoutro
sound
a transition on any cut titles pictures, clips and shapes your own music the picture follows the playhead
- Chapter titles at the moments that matter, so a two-hour reaction gets a spine a viewer can skim
- A shape over one corner when something spoils the ending in the background
- Colour per clip, so a dark cinema scene and your bright room stop fighting each other at every cut
- Your own music under the intro, on its own lane, with its own fade
Plus one-click look changes on any clip, transitions, shapes, titles, pan and zoom, music and colour per clip. Everything the editor can do
A film reaction, start to finish
The order we would work in. New to it? Start with the beginner guide.
- 1Record the whole watch in one take, headphones on, with your microphone on its own track if you can.
- 2Sync on an unmistakable moment near the start: a line, a door slam, the first note of the score.
- 3Take a Video-first template set, or a You-first one if the film is one that gets claimed.
- 4On the timeline, pick Trim pauses for a tighter cut or Keep it all for a full watch-along.
- 5Add chapter titles on the text lane, so a two-hour video has a spine a viewer can skim, then save.
You get the finished final.mp4, and a timeline for DaVinci Resolve, Premiere or Final Cut if you want to keep going.
If you get a copyright claim
Movies carry the strongest Content ID fingerprints, and a first-watch runs long, so risk is highest here. If you want it to look cinematic, use Video-first but cut to yourself often and keep real commentary going. If a claim would hurt, switch to You-first: shrink the film window, fade it toward barely-visible during quiet stretches, and lay an overlay over it. You decide how much of the film ever appears.
Ways to lower the odds, not a guarantee, and not legal advice. Claims, strikes and fair use, explained →
Questions about film reactions
Can I edit a full two-hour movie reaction?
Yes. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no upload limit or waiting. What a long project costs is time on your own computer and temporary disk space, about 14 GB per hour per output file at 1080p, and the editor shows the exact number before it starts.
Can I keep the whole watch-along instead of a shortened cut?
Yes. In the Auto cut panel, Keep it all drops nothing: the finished video is exactly as long as your recording and only the layout changes when you talk. Trim pauses is the other choice, and it shortens long quiet stretches to a length you set.
Which layout shows the least of the film?
You-first: you fill the frame and the film plays in a window you can shrink, dim or cover. More cuts to your camera also show less of the film. None of it guarantees anything, and the copyright page explains why.
Start your next film reaction
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